On Sunday afternoon, a pharmacist of Punjab government’s ‘108 Ambulance’ service was allegedly caught with drugs and intoxicating pills by the sarpanch of Talwandi village, which is ill-famed for drug supply.

It is alleged that the pharmacist had come to the village from Phillaur in the ambulance on pretext of picking up a patient, but had in reality came to buy the strip of a banned pharmaceutical drug. The accused has been identified as Amritpal Singh of Bahini Sahib village in Tarn Taran. However, police did not find anything convicting from ambulance driver Sukhraj Singh of Gurdaspur, they had taken him into custody to discoverthe reason for driving the ambulance to Ludhiana from Phillaur. Both of them has been detained at Salem Tabri police station, after sarpanch Manjit Singh informed the cops.

Manjit said that they had seen the ambulance coming to the village frequently for over a year. They found it suspicious as another ambulance generally comes to pick up patients at the village. This is the reason they stopped the ambulance and found the pharmacist consuming drugs.

Ludhiana additional deputy commissioner of police Gurpreet Singh Sikand said their primaryinvestigation had revealed that the pharmacist used to procure drugs form a resident of Talwandi and used to come to the village in the ambulance. They will also check if the accused has used the ambulance for smuggling or not. Sikand further said that their teams were raiding the village to catch the drug supplier. An FIR has been lodged against the pharmacist.

Source: ET Healthworld